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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Tell me your product suite has too many options without telling me your product suite has too many options

Screenshot of the AWS EC2 instance connection UI, showing four options with radio button selection available next to each: EC2 Instance Connect, EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint, SSM Session Manager, and EC2 Serial Console. The radio button for SSM Session Manager and its surrounding tile are highlighted, showing that it is selected. The UI shows new tag-style descriptors above each option, e.g. "Public subnet access" above EC2 instance connect and "maximum security" above SSM Session Manager.

Reposted by @hopkinsth.bsky.social

yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 09/09/2026

huge fan of the "give the means of creating software to the 4 companies making the models (3 of whom were part of the tech oligopoly before this all started)" as a way of somehow breaking tech monopolies

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

adding "make no mistakes" to my LLM prompt like telling my 2-year-old to be careful with the butcher's knife he's holding

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

These days if I were GitHub I would avoid any metaphor involving burning down anything.

Incident with Actions

Update - We are continuing to observe recovery and delayed queues are burning down. Some customers will continue to see increased delays until all throttled work has been completed - we expect this within the next hour.

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I for one find it hard to believe they couldn’t find a camo tent somewhere in Western North Carolina.

I went to buy a camouflage tent the other day. I couldn't find any.
Pisgah Coffee Roasters®
6283 Asheville Hwy, Pisgah Forest NC 28768, United States
sales@pisgahroasters.com
pisgahroasters.com

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Hickorynut Gorge before it was overrun with kudzu this year

Landscape photograph showing the hickorynut gorge, NC, USA, looking toward Lake Lure

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

“The delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. […] there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.”

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

New spear phishing campaign just dropped

SMS message from unknown number:

Hey Thomas, you've been selected to schedule a personalized demo on how autonomous Al agents can enhance efficiency and reduce costs for (Company).
As a token of our appreciation, we're offering a $100 Amazon gift card for your participation.
This session is purely informational, with no commitment required unless it aligns with your goals at (Company).
If this sounds interesting, please respond to this text message and I'll send over the details.

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

@jeffgerstmann.com Really enjoying the bonus podcasts. Related: identifying strongly with multiple kids awake in the middle of the night with a shocking complaint.

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

“Serverless” is one of the big oxymorons of the recent age of computing. “Serverless” as in “more servers than ever before”

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Reiterating: this is feeling more and more like Cookie Clicker: Tariff Edition. Look out for those sweet tariff multipliers.

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

“This is the worst the AI will ever be,” lectures the Government Reeducation Agent as they shove you and your neighbors into an unmarked van

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask how quickly your flesh bod can be a vessel for another billionaire’s consciousness

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Looking all over this webpage for the corollary: where is the "insecure login" button?!

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

xkcd’s “Bobby Tables” but with the Department of Treasury

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

@jeffgerstmann.com Listened to the Wednesday bonus podcast in the car with my 15-month-old, who was holding the same toy (probably) you were fixing for your daughter. He was stoked, like “holy shit I can hear my toy on the car stereo too!!”

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Never knew I would learn about the merge box today. Behold... the merge box!

Github PR error message: "Unable to load the merge box. Try refreshing the page or if the problem persists contact support"

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Not sure I will be in the position of needing cellular internet service at home again, but in my specific location USCellular is one of two available providers. Wow have their plans improved in the past 5 years.

US cellular home internet price promotion

HOME INTERNET AT
PRICES YOUR BUDGET WILL LOVE

*Starting price is $59.99, discounts applied after purchase.

Home Internet Plan
$39.99/mo.

Plan features:
• 300GB - 900GB Priority Internet Data

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Big fan of commit squashing in Git for making all my commit messages like "fix yaml" or "should I consider a different line of work?" lost in the sands of time.

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Reminds of a “technology for musicians” course where we made personal sites. You could call mine a sort of single-page app in the era before that was in vogue?

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

January 1st 2025: rapidly becoming an expert in foods to serve your kids for easy clean up when they puke 4-6 hours later

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I seem to forget about this every year until something makes it pop into my head, and then as today I spend like an hour reading through the accompaniment. That opening (and closing) theme is good!! m.youtube.com/watch?v=oAGC...

m.youtube.com

'Twas the Night Before Christmas - University of Utah Combined Choirs

YouTube video by UofUtahSingers

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Today, to the tune of “still, still, still,” “trash, trash, trash, we need to take out the trash”

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Problems in software: naming things, off by one errors, and “I didn’t have time to figure out what permissions my program needs so I granted all of them”

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

WNC recovery is slow but signs of healing are out there.

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 08/06/2023

Dads are always talking about iPhone 14 Pro in the Space Black color option. As a dad, I

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 02/06/2023

A conversation this morning lead me to the Amazon CodeWhisperer FAQ page, and I just (ironically) love this item. Toxicity and bias? nbd, they got that on lock, apparently.

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hopkinsth.bsky.social @hopkinsth.bsky.social · 27/05/2023

At my day job I’m in what folks call “engineering leadership,” which means I get way too excited by finding features in Google Sheets that I didn’t know about

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